Research On Legal Issues Of Port State Control

Port State Control(PSC) is the inspection of foreign ships in national ports by administrations of Port State based on convention provisions and internal legislations in safeguarding the safety of navigation and ensuring the prevention of marine pollution.PSC is intended to drive the sub-standard ships out the international shipping market.In the past twenty years,the significance of PSC becomes more and more obvious.PSC plays more and more import role in safeguarding the safety of navigation and the prevention of marine pollution.Now the imperfect of internal legislation of PSC in China is the biggest drawback preventing effective PSC taken by China,so the perfection of our country's legislation for PSC is extremely urgent.The thesis introduces the system of PSC and analyses respective influence of marine conventions,"Procedures for Port State Control",and Memorandums of Understanding on Port State Control.The thesis also introduces European Union's PSC Directive,legislation of PSC in America and legislation of PSC in Australia.The thesis is mainly designed to make research on legislation of PSC in China,and makes study on the nature,the necessity and the status of legislation of PSC in China.Based on the aboved research and study,the thesis proposes legislative suggestions concerned on the basic principle,the main approach and the main contents of legislation of PSC in China.